Re: Contributing initgroups upstream
Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.devel |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martijn Faassen wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just contributed a patch to CPython adding os.initgroups based on >> this extension module: >> >> http://svn.zope.org/Zope/trunk/src/initgroups/ >> >> The CPython ticket is here: >> >> http://bugs.python.org/issue7333 >> >> I don't think there should be any licensing issues, as the ZPL is pretty >> permissive and the code is very short. However, if there are, could the >> code in question be relicensed for CPython under the Python license? > > I've passed this question along to the Zope Foundation. IMO, there isn't really much of anything "protectable" in that module: it is a micro-thin wrapper around a libc syscall. If I sat down to write the module from scratch, I bet I would come within a negligable diff (whitespace, ordering of #includes, etc.) of the same code. Just for belt-and-suspeders: as a ZF board member, I would certainly vote to contribute the code to Python. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAksBdPMACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5FIgCfY9O6Rix/Q1eqc3qLREP4zzM1 RB8AniYGBd+hhRCLlKbicPBVA8GrrGAA =B8bj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )